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Overcoming Necessity Emergency, Constraint, and the Meanings of American Constitutionalism

Crocker Thomas P.

ISBN: HB: 9780300181616, Yale University Press, August 2020
320 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm

Using emergency as a cause for action ultimately leads to an almost unnoticed evolution in the political understanding of presidential powers. The Constitution, however, was designed to function under "states of exception", most notably through the s...

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Political Science

Congress in Reverse Repeals from Reconstruction to the Present

Ragusa Jordan M., Birkhead Nathaniel A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226717470, ISBN: HB: 9780226717333, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 line drawings, 17 tables

After years of divided government, countless Republicans campaigned on a promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. Yet when they took control of both chambers of Congress and the White House in 2017 – after six years that...

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Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy

Howell William G., Moe Terry M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226763170, ISBN: HB: 9780226728797, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Has American democracy's long, ambitious run come to an end? Possibly yes. As William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe argue in this trenchant new analysis of modern politics, the United States faces a historic crisis that threatens our system of self-gove...

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Business & Economics

Political Science

Trade Wars Are Class Wars How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace

Klein Matthew C., Pettis Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300244175, Yale University Press, July 2020
256 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 29 black&white illus.

Trade disputes are usually understood as conflicts between countries with competing national interests, but as Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis show in this book, they are often the unexpected result of domestic political choices to serve the inte...

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Democracy Declined The Failed Politics of Consumer Financial Protection

SoRelle Mallory E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226711799, ISBN: HB: 9780226711652, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 72 line drawings, 19 tables

As Elizabeth Warren memorably wrote, "It is impossible to buy a toaster that has a one-in-five chance of bursting into flames and burning down your house. But it is possible to refinance an existing home with a mortgage that has the same one-in-five...

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Political Science

America

Myth of the Imperial Presidency How Public Opinion Checks the Unilateral Executive

Christenson Dino P., Kriner Douglas L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226704364, ISBN: HB: 9780226704227, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 37 line drawings, 23 tables

Throughout the history of the United States, the nation's presidents have shown a startling power to act independently of Congress and the courts. Using such tools as executive orders and memoranda, presidents have taken the country to war, abolished...

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Political Science

Sovereignty, RIP

Herzog Don

ISBN: HB: 9780300247725, Yale University Press, June 2020
320 pp., 20.9x13.9 cm

Social order requires a sovereign: an actor with unlimited, undivided, and unaccountable authority. Or so the classic theory says. But without noticing, we've gutted the theory. Constitutionalism limits state authority. Federalism divides it. The rul...

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Computer Science & Internet

Media Studies

Lie Machines How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives

Howard Philip N.

ISBN: HB: 9780300250206, Yale University Press, June 2020
224 pp., 20.9x13.9 cm

Artificially intelligent "bot" accounts bolster or berate politicians on Twitter. Conspiracy theorists publish junk news sites to promote their bunk. Campaigners create fake dating profiles to attract young voters. We live in a world of technologies...

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Political Science

Race to the Bottom How Racial Appeals Work in American Politics

Stephens-Dougan LaFleur

ISBN: PB: 9780226698984, ISBN: HB: 9780226698847, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 line drawings, 12 tables

African American voters are a key demographic to the modern Democratic base, and conventional wisdom has it that there is political cost to racialized "dog whistles", especially for Democratic candidates. However, politicians from both parties and fr...

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Herodotus in the Anthropocene

Alden Schlosser Joel

ISBN: PB: 9780226704845, ISBN: HB: 9780226704708, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

We are living in the age of the Anthropocene, in which human activities are recognized for effecting potentially catastrophic environmental change. In this book, Joel Alden Schlosser argues that our current state of affairs calls for a creative polit...

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